You are perfectly right like as usual being wrong in your original way mocking every "tinfoil hat" there is, be it mystics or audiophile crystal users ( like me)......

But wait a minute is a born blind man has the right to declare "colors" only "words" because he cannot experience them ?

Is this a proof of something? common place and pleonasm are not arguments do you catch the difference? Think for a minute instead of sticking to your narrow and boring seemingly "down to earth" opinion.... Sorry but you are a specialist of the 2 line sarcasm here about "tweaks" and now it seems about mystics......I respect ONLY arguments and experience...Take your common place sentence at the opposite location of where i put my "tin foil hat"...

By the way ask me politely and i will explain to you how to perceive intangible entity using the rigourously Goethan method, illustrated by Wolfgang Schad in a 1300 pages book about the morphology and environment of animals i just bought... Perhaps you will understand now after that  better than your cheap clothes used to the fabric at discount nominalism....And you will spare not only to mystics of all countries but also to audiophiles of the world your next boring sarcasm...

 

You can randomly combine a bunch of phonemes and slap that word on some intangible entity, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that said entity exists.

But are we choosing? Hundreds of thousands of images especially during our formative years pulling us hither and thither. And forget the theories. We are the experiment with no controls. Not sure we or the theorists have a clue as to the outcome. Those in power will do what they can to continue in power but they have no ultimate say. As the printing press led to the Reformation and it’s attendant ills and positives, so television and the internet will lead us to salvation or oblivion. Or maybe not. Who knows, just somewhere very uncertain.

Let them eat data.

 

Neither bull nor Ferdinand.

In the era of television the greatest ploy against humanity, save all the useless marketed wars, was the conditioned marketing mass manipulation for corporations of the people into consumers, it was not "communism" which is now erased save in China, because corporations let it grow for greed reason and because they need this fear to controls us....

In the era of internet the greatest ploy against humanity is the technological transhumanism cult of power by corporations which are all of them ruled and/or controlled by 3 main investment corporation worldwide, Vanguard, Blacrock and i forgot the other name... It is not conspiracy but proven, open fact for all to see...

All crisis were manufactured from at least 3 centuries ago from the teachings of some master manipulators, one of them being a genius born in 1670, so clever and underrated most dont know even his name in low level " intellectual" elite : Bernard Mandeville... In spite of that underestimated general status the world was rigorously ruled with his discoveries about the way humans are workable animals, and animals themselves pure machines like said Descartes...

How surprizing this worldeview is the actual view in transhumnanism corporate cult whose center is in Davos and central bankers and big corporations like Google...

How surprizing central private bankers were introduced in control in US in 1913, after corporate interests destroyed Tesla, destroyed humans transforming them in consumers, before transforming them in cyborgs tomorrow...

Freedom where it is?

I can vote some sleepwalker will say.... Democrats are communist and republican are honest men, or the reverse democrats are rational and republicans elite powered greed robots...

All this political litterature is pure non-sense created by design ,the cookbook is written for all elite grreed power to use from Mandeville...Orwell and the Huxley brothers are not geniuses, the real genius know better than them centuries before them...

The same useless debates exist in audio with the programmed consumerism under the technlogical hubris power... Basic acoustic and psycho-acoustic science is not at the center but put aside with irrational ready made costly "technological" solutions...

Ok audio debates are nothing compared to world debates but one mirror the other: no basic kowledge of science rule here, only technological power at all scale from the audio gear to higher tech hubris...Sound is not first and last the result of electronic technology but from acoustic and psycho-acoustic principles from millenia ago...

Freedom exist in our hand, all social engineering exist to erase this fact from our consciousness...But you must think and study and with this vaccinate yourself with the only necessary core vaccination : thinking process...

Remember that the immune system could be programmed by healthier life and right thinking and some kind of music by the way...

Ask Christ or Buddha and Helmholtz and some others , not to your congressman or health minister or to your favorite consumer market....

 

Merry christmast to all...

I will quit for sometime and i apologize to the OP who was right from the beginning really i speak too much...

He is a very generous man especially with me...

I am a retired fool...

 

P.S. this article is free for download and is only the TIP of the iceberg Mandeville but it is a beginning...

THE INFLUENCE OF BERNARD MANDEVILLE BY F. B. KAYE

Even to scholars Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees is now little more than a name and the recollection of a long-dead scandal. Yet the book had an extraordinary effect on the history of thought, an effect international in scope and still felt. Indeed, so great was Mandeville’s influence that he can, I believe, be shown to be a major dignitary of eighteenth century thought. To demonstrate this is the aim of the present paper...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4171820?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Another cue:

«Bernard Mandeville’s work, The Fable of the Bees, put forth the idea of a social order which did not rely on a central design to function, but rather on the individual actions of its constituents; this was adopted by Charles Darwin in his theory that life creates order and change not because of a providential guiding force, but through its own existence.»

 Very interesting.   It’s all a matter of values.  
 

Then there is this:

 

 

in a word: Adam smith+Marx+Freud+Darwin FOUR alleged geniuses coming really from only one sourcing head before them ... History is a great master when we read it...

all these ideas comes from ONLY one source : Bernard Mandeville...

verify by yourself...

Guess who study Mandeville till this day like an operating manual ?

A cue:

Dr. Bernard Mandeville. Lecture on a Master Mind.

HAYEK Friedrich August von (1966.)

In this conference Hayek pointed out the fact that Mandeville is a greater psychological and sociological master than an economical master like Keynes think he was ...

Think about that Keynes and Hayek arguing about in what field this genius is the greatest...

Invite Rockfeller now and Karl Schwab and ask them where Mandeville is the greatest , they will say manipulation of masses and Crowd psychology...

Ask the father of transhumanism in which field Mandeville is the greatest: they will answer that he is the FIRST to understand animals are perfect robot after Descartes but contrary to Descartes he was the first to PROVE it and he demonstrate how men is a workable animals and future cyborg in a perfect hive...

Now guess what Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays would say about our master....They will say that he discover the unconscious and his way of working in a more general way than Freud himself thought in a more restricted way because Freud had no deep sociological insight in the collective....

Ask the dead Marx how the Mandeville more general class theory struggles explained his own more restricted class theory linked to a more superficial economical insight than in liberal economy thinkers before him, all of which come anyway already from Mandeville...

I will let that to pounder in you...

When genius are too deep or too clever nobody understand them save a few for the worst or for the better...

Ask Darwin and he will say that Mandeville idea of society influence him at least on par with Malthus....And even Maltus read Mandeville anyway through Adam Smith which is indepted to Mandeville for most of his ideas...

Ok no single man could explain history and all ideas by himself alone...

My sketched arguments here was to UNDERLINE a deep undercurrent with one of his first conscious source till powerful today...

Then think and dont argue that Mandeville cannot explain all there is in the last 3 centuries i know that perfectly well...

But Chance dont explain why so much of the more powerful influent ideologies to come after Mandevillre were all in the single egg of his story of the fable of the bees and his subsequent works of philosophy....

I wrote all this to make you think about the ACTUAL CRISIS and his meaning...Not reading newspaper but genius itself...

Dont read audio magazine read Helmholtz and some acousticians...

 

Dont upgrade your brain embed it rightfully....